Clinical Staff

Lauryn Garner, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., 2023
Fordham University
Lauryn.Garner@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Lauryn Garner, Ph.D. (she/her), is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Garner received her B.A. from Brandeis University with a major in Psychology. She then worked as a clinical research coordinator at McLean Hospital’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute focusing on research related to the etiology and treatment of OCD. Dr. Garner received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fordham University in 2023 following completion of her predoctoral internship at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Garner has a clinical and research background in anxiety disorders and implementing exposure-based therapies including exposure and response prevention for OCD, prolonged exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder, and cognitive behavioral therapy for other anxiety and related disorders. Her research interests include mediators and moderators of treatment outcome for anxiety disorders as well as mechanisms of symptom change. At the CTSA, Dr. Garner specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders, and PTSD.